Publishing your journal articles online – your rights

To get one manuscript published in a top journal requires years of hard work. It involves gathering research, collecting and analyzing data and facing the peer-review process. It is a process that I appreciate to become a better researcher.

To further research, I would like to share my work beyond publication in a journal. A friend noticed that Neil Thurman published preprint versions of his work. In an email, he told me that most journals allow researchers to publish preprint versions of their articles. He said preprints are the version of the manuscript that was initially submitted to the journal without the amendments required by the peer review process.

Taylor and Francis, a publisher of many journals including Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Communication Methods and Measures, and Mass Communication and Society, says that authors have the right to publish their preprint work on their home page or institutional Web site. Based on my reading of an author’s rights, it can also be published on another site if the information provided adjacent to the article links to the finished published journal article to the journal’s Web page.

Authors are also able to link to the finished journal article on their home page or institution’s Web page after an 18 month period following publication in Social Sciences & Humanities journals. However, the author must fully reference the publisher and link their article to the journal’s Web page. However, an individual must pay if they want access to the author’s article.

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